TABLE 4.
Concentration of flavones in cereals and legumes (28 g dry grain or legume/serving)
| Botanical name (family) | Common name | Flavone | Flavone, mg/100 g dry weight | Flavone, mg/serving | Reference |
| Pisum sativum (Fabaceae) | Field pea | Apigenin C-glycosides | <0.31–4.6 | <1–1 | 83 |
| Luteolin C-glycosides | <0.11–1.1 | <1 | |||
| Luteolin O-glycosides | <1.61–4.6 | <1–1 | |||
| Cicer arietinum (Fabaceae) | Chickpea | Luteolin C-glycosides | <0.11–0.1 | <1 | 83 |
| Vicia faba (Fabaceae) | Fava bean | Apigenin C-glycosides | <0.31–0.5 | <1 | 30, 83 |
| Apigenin O-neohesperidoside | <0.31–0.3 | <1 | |||
| Luteolin C-glycosides | <0.11–0.9 | <1 | |||
| Digitaria exilis (Poaceae) | Millet, fonio | Apigenin | 15.0 | 4 | 84 |
| Luteolin | 35.0 | 10 | |||
| Sorghum bicolor (Poaceae) | Lemon-yellow sorghum | Apigenin | 0.1–28.7 | <1–8 | 85 |
| Luteolin | 0.3–7.5 | <1–2 | |||
| Sorghum bicolor (Poaceae) | Red sorghum | Apigenin | <0.2–20.4 | <1–6 | 30, 85, 86 |
| Luteolin | <0.2–18.2 | <1–5 | |||
| Triticum monococcum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 2.1 | <1 | 87 |
| Triticum urartu (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 3.8 | 1 | |
| Triticum dicoccum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 9.5 | 3 | |
| Triticum carthlicum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 10.5 | 3 | |
| Triticum polonicum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 7.4 | 2 | |
| Triticum turgidum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 12.7 | 4 | |
| Triticum durum (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 7.8 | 2 | |
| Triticum spelta (Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 17.9 | 5 | |
| Triticum aestivum(Poaceae) | Wheat grain | Apigenin C-glycosides | 8.0 | 2 | |
| Oryza sativa (Poaceae) | Black rice | Apigenin C-glycosides | 6.3 | 2 | 88 |
| Luteolin C-glycosides | 1.4 | <1 | |||
| Red rice | Apigenin C-glycosides | 0.7 | <1 | ||
| Luteolin C-glycosides | 0.7 | <1 | |||
| Brown rice | Apigenin C-glycosides | 1.8 | <1 | ||
| Luteolin C-glycosides | 0.3 | <1 | |||
| White rice | Apigenin C-glycosides | 1.6 | <1 | ||
| Luteolin C-glycosides | 0.8 | <1 | |||
| Fagopyrum esculentum (Polygonaceae) | Dehulled, roasted buckwheat | Apigenin C-glycosides | 0.2–0.7 | <1 | 30, 89 |
| Whole buckwheat | Apigenin C-glycosides | 0.3–3.3 | <1 | 90 | |
| Luteolin C-glycosides | 0.2–3.4 | <1–1 |
1
Limit of detection not specified but estimated with the use of the lowest reported value (83).